Belt and trousers supporter.



T. F. HAYES. BELT AND TROUSERS SUPPORTER. APPLICATION FILED mus. 1917.

Patented Sept; 4, 191?.

UNTTED TATFQ PATENT THOMAS FESTUS HAYES, OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE.

BELT AND TROUSERS SUPPORTER.

Application filed January 18, 1917.

HAYES, a citizen of the United States, resid ing at Jackson, in the county of Madison and State of Tennessee, have invented oer tain new and useful Improvements in Belt and Trousers Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for mutually supporting waist belts and trousers, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device which may be attached to the waist band of a pair of trousers and engage with the belts usually employed to maintain the trousers in position, especially in warm weather when suspenders are generally discarded.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be readily attached without material structural change to belts and trousers of various makes.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention' Figure 1 is a-perspective view of the waist band portion of a pair of trousers and a belt surrounding the same, and showing the device applied.

Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of a portion of a waist band of a pair of trousers with the device applied.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section on the line 38 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detached perspective View of the improved device with the parts separated.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 illustrating a modification in the manner of attaching the button to the stem.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a stock portion 10 pointed at one end, as shown at 11, and turned over at the other end to form a hook like portion 12, the free end of the portion 12 being initially disposed relatively close to the stock to produce a grip upon an article inserted into the hook. Extending from the stock 10 intermediate its ends is a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. at, 191?.

Serial No. 143,123.

stud 13, preferably threaded, to receive a button like member 1% having a threaded aperture to engage the stud. The stud 13 is pointed in advance of its threaded part, as shown at 15. In using the improved device the button member is detached and the pointed stud l3 forced through the outer flap of the waist band portion of the trousers, the waist band being indicated conventionally at 16. The button portion 1 1 is then applied to the threaded part of the stud and rotated to bind the stock 10 firmly to the waist band, as illustrated in Fig. 8. The button 14 is thus disposed between the overlapping portions of the waist band and is concealed by the flap. The pointed portion 11 of the stock is forced into the material of the waist band when the button 14 is applied, as shown in Fig. 3, and the stock 10 and its hooked terminal 12 prevented from rotation. The belt is represented as a whole at 17 and is provided with a buckle member 18, and when the belt is applied to the waist band of the trousers the portion of the belt adjacent to the buckle is forced between thebody of the stock 10 and the bent over terminal 12, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. By this means the belt is firmly supported from upward displacement and frictionally prevented from downward movement by the grip of the member 12. Thus the improved device operates to mutually support the belt and the trousers and eifectually prevents displacement of the parts, and holds the trousers in proper position and the belt in proper place on the trousers, and effectually prevents the belt from climbing or sagging upon the trousers.

The terminal 12 may be engaged with the buckle member 18 or other portion of the belt than the part next to the buckle. A plurality of the improved devices may be applied to the waist band of the trousers at suitable intervals, if found necessary.

The improved device is constructed of metal of suitable strength to withstand the strains to which it will be subjected, and may be plated, japanned, or otherwise treated or protected.

The button 1 1 may be attached to the stud 13 by other means than screw threading, for instance by sewing, as shown in Fig. 5, or other suitable means.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. A device of the class described comprising a body adapted to bear against a garment and hook shaped at one end and.

body and operating through the garment and urging the body against the garment with the pointed end embeddedin the same.

2. A device of the class described comprising a body adapted to bear against a garment and hook shaped at one end and pointed at the other end, said pointed end being directed obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the body, a holding pin extending from said body and adapted to bepassed through the garment, and means engaging said pin and operative to draw the body against the garment and cause the'obliquely directed point to be embedded therein.

A device of the class described compris ing a body adapted to bear against a garment and hook shaped at one end and pointed at the other end, said pointed end being directed obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the body, a threaded holding pin eX- tending from said body and adapted to be passed through the garment, and a clamp nut engaging said pin and operative to draw the body against the garment and cause the obliquely directed point to be embedded therein.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature."

THOMAS rrsrvs HAYES. a 5.

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